Feb 13
VMware Fusion 2.0.2 was released this week. A number of new features have been added.
From the release notes :
"VMware Fusion 2.0.2 is a maintenance release of VMware Fusion 2. It is a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 1 and VMware Fusion 2 customers, and has the following enhancements:
- Allows importing Windows virtual machines from both Parallels Desktop 4.0 and Parallels Server for Mac.
- Supports mounting unencrypted .dmg file format as a CD/DVD disk image, in addition to .iso file format.
- Supports Mac OS X 10.5.6 as a host operating system.
- Provides experimental support for Mac OS X Server 10.5.6 as a guest operating system.
- Supports Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest operating system, including features such as VMware Tools with prebuilt kernel modules, Easy Install, and Unity.
- Ships with a 12-month complimentary subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 antivirus software, with localization support for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
- Provides performance improvements when browsing mirrored folders and shared folders in Windows virtual machines.
- Supports display of Windows applications in Unity view as 48 pixel x 48 pixel icons.
- Resolves issues with "Optimize for Mac OS application performance" preference option for Mac OS X 10.5.5 and later.
- Contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues .
Note : Two .dmg files of VMware Fusion are available for download. One contains McAfee VirusScan Plus, the other does not. Download either based on your download preferences."
You can download the updated version of Fusion here .
March 27th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Have you seen any numbers for the real-world performance boost that could be expected in VMs when using Nehalem and the extended-page-table support?
I’ve seen statements that it *should* results it greatly improved performance but have yet to see any benchmarks on the internet. This was added with VMWare Fusion 2.0.2 and now with the new Nehalem Mac Pro’s it should be possible to test.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Well, the Nehalem’s were released today. I’ve heard secondhand conversations about how much better it performs with certain workloads. Workloads that do significant memory page searching and updates especially. I’ve heard that the overhead for virtualization is dramatically reduced for those workloads.
Keep checking the VMmark results page, we should start seeing Nehalem servers soon: http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html
March 31st, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Ask and you shall receive:
http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2009/03/performance-evaluation-of-intel-ept-hardware-assist-.html